povoditi

Serbo-Croatian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /poʋǒditi/
  • Hyphenation: po‧vo‧di‧ti

Verb

povòditi impf (Cyrillic spelling пово̀дити)

  1. (transitive) to lead
  2. (transitive) to initiate, begin
  3. (intransitive) to take the lead
  4. (reflexive) to go along with, imitate

Conjugation

Conjugation of povoditi
infinitive povoditi
present verbal adverb pòvodēći
past verbal adverb
verbal noun pòvođēnje
singular plural
1st 2nd 3rd 1st 2nd 3rd
present povodim povodiš povodi povodimo povodite povode
future future I povodit ću1
povodiću
povodit ćeš1
povodićeš
povodit će1
povodiće
povodit ćemo1
povodićemo
povodit ćete1
povodićete
povodit ćē1
povodiće
future II bȕdēm povodio2 bȕdēš povodio2 bȕdē povodio2 bȕdēmo povodili2 bȕdēte povodili2 bȕdū povodili2
past perfect povodio sam2 povodio si2 povodio je2 povodili smo2 povodili ste2 povodili su2
pluperfect3 bȉo sam povodio2 bȉo si povodio2 bȉo je povodio2 bíli smo povodili2 bíli ste povodili2 bíli su povodili2
imperfect povođah povođaše povođaše povođasmo povođaste povođahu
conditional conditional I povodio bih2 povodio bi2 povodio bi2 povodili bismo2 povodili biste2 povodili bi2
conditional II4 bȉo bih povodio2 bȉo bi povodio2 bȉo bi povodio2 bíli bismo povodili2 bíli biste povodili2 bíli bi povodili2
imperative povodi povodimo povodite
active past participle povodio m / povodila f / povodilo n povodili m / povodile f / povodila n

1   Croatian spelling: others omit the infinitive suffix completely and bind the clitic.
2   For masculine nouns; a feminine or neuter agent would use the feminine and neuter gender forms of the active past participle and auxiliary verb, respectively.
3   Often replaced by the past perfect in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped.
4   Often replaced by the conditional I in colloquial speech, i.e. the auxiliary verb biti (to be) is routinely dropped.
  *Note: The aorist and imperfect were not present in, or have nowadays fallen into disuse in, many dialects and therefore they are routinely replaced by the past perfect in both formal and colloquial speech.